Filtration

What is filtration?
• The separation of solids from liquids by passing the
mixture through a suitable medium, retaining the solid
matter on its surface and allowing the liquid to pass
through.

• Filter medium is a porous barrier - allowing liquid to

pass through while retaining most of the solids.

• The filter medium could be a screen (wire mesh),

cloth, paper, granular bed, etc.

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F ilt e r C lo t h

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Relative dewatering costs

40

35
Relative costs/t

30

25

Thermal drying
20

15

10

Filtration
5

Thickening
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
Moisture%

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Filtration terms:

• Slurry: Continuous liquid phase

Solids suspended in the liquid

Filter cake: Continuous solids phase

Liquid inside the cake
Solid filtration rate, Tons/ m2 *h

• Filtrate: Liquid freed from solid in

the filtration process
Liquid filtration rate, l/m2*h
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Clasification:

• By driving force - Gravity

- Centrifugal force
- Vacuum
- Pressure

• By filtration mechanism
- surface / cake filtration
- depth / clarifying filtration

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D e p t h / C l a r ify in g f il t r a t io n

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Clasification

• By objective - Dry solids / cake

- Clarified liquid / filtrate
- Both cake and filtrate

• By operating cycle
- Batch
- Continuous

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 Pressure Filtration
Filter cake dewatering

• Reducing the liquid content of the filter cake

• Drying the filter cake by replacing the liquid inside the

cake by air or by reducing the liquid volume content
of the filter cake

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Filtration methods

1. Gravity 2.Centrifugal 3.Vacuum 4.Pressure

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Pressure Features
Filtration

• High separation force

+ slurry pumping pressure
+ mechanical pressing
+ air blow drying
160
• Flexibility
ton/m² + freely adjustable combination
of above
+ option for integrated,
efficient cake washing

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 Pressure Filtration
Described:

• Slurry is pumped under pressure through the filter

cloth, normally with centrifugal pump

• Surface / cake filtration – cake build up on cloth

• Batch process – removal of the cake is required

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